[TigerLikesRooster]

Bush unloaded on Kim Jong-il the other day. Now this. Suddenly the pace of events are picking up.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I like this move!

[davidosborne]

BTTT!

[Mr. K]

well DUUUUuuuuhhhh~! maybe the author would like us NOT to consider things in advance...

[P.O.E.]

Besides which, North Korea is a humanitarian crisis in the making. Once the Ill one is deposed, the region will need to be ready to help his afflicted millions. Then, like Iraq, expect jubilant elections.

But first things first - have to get rid of the dictator.

[P.O.E.]

Besides which, North Korea is a humanitarian crisis in the making. Once the Ill one is deposed, the region will need to be ready to help his afflicted millions. Then, like Iraq, expect jubilant elections.

But first things first - have to get rid of the dictator.

[BykrBayb]

I'm thinking this needs a Steely-Eyed Killers of the Deep ping. What do you think?

[redgolum]

Hmm.

Little Kim had better be careful.

[cherokee1]

So the Joint Chiefs write up a paper explaining how we decide to use nukes---and it appears to be news only in Japan? Was the story, two weeks old, only reported by Kyodo News? Never mind Clinton--I've said many times it would take two decades to clean up the mess he made. In spite of his Rodney King nuclear policy he still CARRIED THE FOOTBALL! And so does GW, only closer, I think. The outline in the paper is how I always thot the call for weapons DID WORK. The notion that somehow Regional Commanders could not call for weapons before is somewhere up around plain stupid. Picture that: A fight starts but nobody can tell the Prez?
That did happen in Egypt. (73) Nobody would tell the boss they'd already lost the war while he was ramping up the victory party and calling in the Jordanians to help!
If there is an external purpose to the paper it is to put the J's on notice that there might be a little more horsepower in their neighborhood in the near-term.
Read "cross-spectrum " as " same page" ie no question as to what a commander's next move should be if attacked.

[Jeremiah Jr]

The paper, drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces, also revealed that submarines which make port calls in Yokosuka, Sasebo and Okinawa in Japan are prepared for reloading nuclear warheads if necessary to deal with a crisis.

Tick tock...

[Marine_Uncle]

TROLL ALERT ON POST #64......

[hershey]

Tick, tick, tick.....boom.

[happygrl]

Once again, you come through....thanks!

[freepatriot32]

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